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Native Americans in the School System - Family, Community, and Academic Achievement (Paperback)
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Native Americans in the School System - Family, Community, and Academic Achievement (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary Native American Communities
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Carol Ward examines persistent dropout rates among Native American
youth, which remain high despite overall increases in Native adult
education attainment in the last twenty years. Focusing on the
experiences of the Northern Cheyenne nation, she evaluates
historical, ethnographic, and quantitative data to determine the
causes of these educational failures, and places this data in an
economic, political, and cultural context. She shows that the rate
of failure in this community is the result of conflicting
approaches to socializing youth, the struggle between 'native
capital' and 'human capital' development systems. With high rates
of unemployment, poverty, and school dropouts, the Northern
Cheyenne reservation provides some important lessons as Native
Americans pursue greater educational success. This volume will be
of use to policy makers, instructors of comparative education,
Native American studies, sociology and anthropology.
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